Google Neutral On Net Neutrality?

I am a fan of Google Fiber and I love Austin. So when Engadget wrote about Google Fiber in Austin, I was all over the article and there were enough info to keep you there for a few minutes.
But sadly I came away with only the following in my head.

"When I asked Smith about why Google had been silent on the issue of Net Neutrality for so long, considering its own budding ISP, I was cut off by his PR handler:"

May be after all Google wants to be an evil ISP. So much for fiber, at least I know where Comcast stands.

Update: I read on Washington Post that Google is for Free and Open internet! Phew!.

Free Press Challenges Wireless Provisions Of FCC's Open Internet Rules.

FCC's Open Internet Rules. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Free Press a prominent Public interest group filed a petition today challenging U.S. Internet rules set to go into effect November 20. The petition challenges the provisions of the rules that leave more flexibility for wireless broadband be controlled by the carriers.

"When the FCC first proposed the Open Internet rules, they came with the understanding that there is only one Internet, no matter how people choose to reach it. The final rules provide some basic protections for consumers, but do not deliver on the promise to preserve openness for mobile Internet access. They fail to protect wireless users from discrimination, and they let mobile providers block innovative applications with impunity. Our challenge will show that there is no evidence in the record to justify this arbitrary distinction between wired and wireless Internet access. The disparity that the FCC's rules create is unjust and unjustified." Said Free Press Director Matt Woods.

Press release;

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: September 28, 2011
Contact: Dave Saldana, 202-265-1490 x 32

BOSTON -- Free Press filed today in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston a petition for review of the Federal Communications Commission's December 2010 Open Internet order. The Federal Register published the new rules last week, opening the window for such lawsuits.
Free Press, headquartered in Western Massachusetts, will challenge the arbitrary nature of rule provisions that provide less protection for mobile wireless Internet access than they do for wired connections.
Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood made the following statement:
"When the FCC first proposed the Open Internet rules, they came with the understanding that there is only one Internet, no matter how people choose to reach it. The final rules provide some basic protections for consumers, but do not deliver on the promise to preserve openness for mobile Internet access. They fail to protect wireless users from discrimination, and they let mobile providers block innovative applications with impunity.
"Our challenge will show that there is no evidence in the record to justify this arbitrary distinction between wired and wireless Internet access. The disparity that the FCC's rules create is unjust and unjustified. And it's especially problematic because of the increasing popularity of wireless, along with its increasing importance for younger demographics and diverse populations who rely on mobile devices as their primary means for getting online.
"Free Press will fight in court to make these rules stronger, even as we work elsewhere to uphold the FCC's crucial role in promoting openness and equality on the Internet."
The Petition for Review can be seen here:http://www.freepress.net/files/Petition_for_review.pdf###
Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Free Press does not support or oppose any candidate for public office. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications. Learn more atwww.freepress.net

FCC, Telecom Companies, Open Internet And Public: What's At Stake

The FCC will propose and ask for public feedback on rules designed to protect and promote open broadband pipes to the Internet this morning and you can watch a streaming live video of the meeting.
You are already paying through the noses for abysmal services by carriers and do not let them rip you off, of your money and rights.
Even thought I got mad at Verizon CEO on the subject and wanted to send him to grade school to learn math, he is one of the few that actually wanted to find a common ground.
There are more vicious ones like AT&T asking their employees, even their families and friends to lobby at http://blog.openinternet.gov, to not to regulate Internet! Using such sentences as "halt private investment in broadband infrastructure," threaten "the jobs associated with that investment" and "jeopardize the very goals supported by the Obama administration that every American have access to high-speed Internet services."
It is good to know that AT&T is exploiting it's employees as well.
Cisco, Nokia, Motorola are are opposing open internet, fighting to save a chance to sell products like content filtering to Dumb Pipe CEOs.


What's at stake at the FCC this morning

Open Internet (Net Neutrality) Vote Today! Vint Cerf Speaks On The Subject

I am for Open Internet and I like what Vint had to say in an interview with the Washington post and dislike what the likes of Verizon CEO opening his dumb pipe. You can read Vint's interview by Cecilia Kang here.
Do not forget to visit Savetheinternet.com
Vint Cerf on the importance of keeping the Internet open

Internet Technology Companies To FCC: "Keep the Internet open!"

If you saw the post by us last week showing dismay at the letter from the likes of Cisco, Nokia and Motorolla opposing open internet. They were willing to sacrifice something good good for everyone for their own profit. Just imagine the Content filtering switches or traffic shaping equipment the manufactures could sell and of course Large ISPs like to keep the internet to themselves and call a 384K connection a broadband! VoIP? yes pay extra for it.
But the opposite has also happened, today, in an open letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, 24 CEOs and founders representing the world's leading Internet and technology companies (Facebook, Sony, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, and Google) and more, threw their support behind the effort to protect an open Internet.

An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity.
America’s leadership in the technology space has been due, in large part, to the open Internet. We applaud your leadership in initiating a process to develop rules to ensure that the qualities that have made the Internet so successful are protected.

Again for I guess there are profit motives behind it for them but an open internet will provides a greater good for all, not just some switch builders, ISPs and Senators.
I was wondering who will come forward to support the Open Internet, like the recent Spectrum Auctions.

Google Public Policy Blog: Tech CEOs and founders: Keep the Internet open!

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